Our Teachers
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Inspired by years of practice, a deep connection to yoga, and transformational practices we are here to guide you on your journey whether it’s one hour, daily, or deep dives. We are here to share the magic with you!
Marcy Midnight
Founder/Yoga Teacher
Marcy Midnight, founder of Ananda Yoga Space, believes yoga is the practice of embracing the flow of our true self, and affirming that we always have a choice to either reinforce our conditioning or transform, grow and be who we are born to be. Committed to empowering others with her intuitive, authentic teaching, Marcy offers creative vinyasa sequences, mantra, pranayama, focused intention, meditation and spontaneous movement to unite mind, body and spirit. Her vinyasa flow classes integrate breath with movement, form and flow, and strength with deep relaxation. Through intelligent sequences, self-inquiry, and intention setting, she cultivates a strong presence and guides students through a transformational experience in a safe and inclusive atmosphere. Her teaching is inspired and influenced by the many styles of yoga she’s trained and practiced in including Iyengar, Ashtanga, Tantra, Vinyasa, Prana Flow, Kundalini, Somatic Breathwork, Yoga and Social Justice. Her offerings are deeply rooted with her formal teachers and yoga philosophy, but her inspiration for theme and metaphor in the class setting comes from real life experience. In addition to weekly classes, she offers Yoga and Breathwork workshops and training; local and international retreats.
Jenelle Carberry
Yoga Teacher
Jenelle Carberry has been teaching yoga and meditation for over twenty years and is passionate about helping others discover their unique essence and purpose. She believes that healing begins when we take responsibility for our health by prioritizing daily self-care. She loves to witness people come home to themselves, whether through yoga, breathwork, meditation, or life coaching. She enjoys using asanas, kriyas, and breath work in her classes to activate and clear energy; guiding you into a calm and coherent state of being. Jenelle also offers health and lifestyle medicine coaching in private and group settings. To learn more go to JennelleCarberry.com.
Marisa Radha Weppner
Yoga Teacher
Radha is driven by a desire to understand what it means to be human, the nature of reality and what is God. Her offerings aim to create a state of union within oneself for a felt sense of the ineffable. She helps individuals turn knowledge to wisdom by cultivating a connection to Self and a tangible sense of the deepest Truths of existence. Merging ancient wisdom with direct experience, she creates a grounded, safe and expansive environment in which to explore one's inner world. She has extensive experience working with groups and individuals to help them heal core wounds, release limiting beliefs, and create a life of depth, meaning, and purpose. Radha is a 1000 hr Nosara Yoga Master Educator and a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner in training. She has been facilitating transformation and self-awakening for over 20 years through a variety of settings including classes, retreats, community organizing, guiding journeys, and private coaching. She is a faculty member of Esalen Institute, the co-owner of Source Meditation Space, and a therapist at Boise Ketamine Clinic.
Jessica Maitri
Yoga Teacher
Jessica Maitri is a clinical mental health therapist, Yoga Therapist, Breathwork practitioner and intuitive energy healer. She blends both eastern and western therapeutic approaches to embodied wellness. Her training in both western psychology and eastern embodiment practices inform her work with groups and individuals, through her therapeutic modality: The Yothera Method. Jessica's work invites individuals deeply into the present moment, to re-write their old stories of the mind, into their true story of innocence through the body and intuition.
Bridget Moore
Yoga Teacher
“My Body is my temple and asanas are my prayers.” – Guruji (BKS Iyengar) Bridget Moore has been a student and teacher of Yoga for over a decade. Passionate about offering Yoga to her community with authenticity and joy, her classes are a blend of many lineages and years of study. She obtained her 200HR YTT in 2016 from Radha Weppner's Sage Vinyasa Yoga School. She continued her spiritual development and yoga training with senior yoga teachers Kristen Bosteels and Eddie Modestini, founders of Yoga on the Inside, totaling over 200 hours of study. Through her exploration of Vinyasa, Iyengar, Pranyama, Restorative and Kundalini Yoga you can expect conscious alignment, flow, breath awareness, kriyas, and rest. Her practice is deeply inspired and in reverence to the inner peace and connection to higher consciousness accessed through Yoga.
D'Arcy Valverde
Yoga Teacher
D’Arcy Valverde is a 500 RYT having received her 200 hr Yoga Teacher Training (YTT) from Sampoorna Yoga in India, and her 300 hr YTT in 2022 at Sage Yoga & Wellness in Boise, ID. Her vinyasa classes are strong, breath-focused flows – accessible to all levels! – and include grounding, time for meditation, and self-reflection, with a sprinkling of sweet wisdom/thought nuggets from some of her dearest teachers. D’Arcy’s yin/restorative nidra classes are similar, with a focus on slowing down, finding stillness and allowing the wisdom of the body to rejuvenate and restore while being held in loving awareness. D’Arcy’s goal when leading a practice is to hold safe space for individuals to (re-)connect with body, breath, sensation; ultimately, source.
Sherika Tenaya
Yoga Teacher
Sherika Tenaya is passionate about helping people reconnect to their deepest Self and their own personal inner knowing by gently guiding them to bring their conditioned beliefs and ways of being into the light of consciousness. She seeks to remind each of her students that they are the source of their own power and inner authority - in a world that constantly teaches us to forget our worth and to put our authority in the hands of external sources. As a member of the Southern Sierra Miwuk First Nations tribe, Ahwahneechee Grizzly Bear Clan, and the 3x great granddaughter of Chief Tenaya - whose name she carries as her surname to honor his powerful legacy of resistance and which means “to dream” in her Native language - she has seen firsthand how systems of oppression enforced by colonizer culture have greatly stolen the sovereignty of not just indigenous people, but now all of us who grow up in the aftermath of that system, built as it is upon undigested and unresolved oppressive energies. Like her grandfather’s name suggests, she desires to dream into existence a nation of people who remember the importance of tribe, who remember their place in the web of ancestral kinship with not only their human relations, but also their plant and animal relations, and most importantly, their interdependent relation with the Earth and Her sacred waters, air, soils and fires. This is the essence of what it means to decolonize one’s body|mind|spirit. It is this process of decolonizing that has allowed for the greatest spiritual growth in her life, informed and sustained by a deep connection to her indigenous roots, nourished by the wellspring of wisdom taught to her by her elders as well as the practice of somatic archeology, which is a process of unearthing and remembering the stories of wisdom stored in one’s own body. Her unique gift is to share this process with any who wish to learn from her. Sherika has been teaching at Boise’s top yoga studios for nearly a decade. She earned her 500-hour Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (500 ERYT) training through the Nosara Yoga Institute in Costa Rica and draws upon her experience in martial arts, Qi Gong, tantra yoga, Sexological Bodywork, and mobility-focused movement in her classes to help people awaken to their truth, discern illusion from reality, remember their tribe, and come home to their bodies. As a trauma-informed, Certified Somatic Sex Educator and Somatic Breathwork Facilitator, she helps her students heal at their deepest levels, holding their vulnerability with integrity and reverence. She is known for sprinkling indigenous wisdom and trauma-informed sex education in her classes; crafting well-sequenced movement flows set to thoughtful musical playlists; utilizing breathwork and drumming to create body|mind|spirit cohesion, and for her uniquely soothing and grounding presence that allows for her skillful creation of safe-enough, “brave space” containers . You can learn more about her and her somatic sexology work at http://www.savorsoma.com/
Dan Streeby
Yoga Teacher
Dan (aka Dharmadas) has been practicing Babaji’s Kriya Yoga since 2013 and became an Acharya (teacher) in 2019. A loving husband and father, pediatric dentist in Boise since 1999. With his wife Allison, also a teacher of Babaji’s Kriya Hatha Yoga, they are parents of 4 children. He endured enough suffering in his early life to make him a determined and sincere seeker. After years of chasing happiness through sports, academics, collection of titles and degrees, he was still left unsatisfied. During rehabilitation from a bicycle accident, he discovered a practice of Hatha yoga, to help with his physical recovery. It also piqued the seeker in him, and he started down a path of inquiry on history and origin of yoga, leading him to Babaji. The variety of techniques, authenticity of the teachings, and the synergistic approach to this integral yoga inspired him to pursue this path. After receiving the 1st and 2nd initiations, he knew he was home. His practice continued to intensify, under the guidance of M.G. Satchidananda. He participated in the 3rd initiation, the Kriya Hatha Yoga teacher training, and a pilgrimage to Badrinath. When asked what has changed with Babaji’s Kriya Yoga, he responds: “Life is lighter and more joyous. Others noticed the change in me before I could myself. There is now a feeling of connection, an ease to life.” It is now with deep appreciation for all that Babaji’s Kriya yoga has done to transform his life, that he passionately shares these teachings with others. He has a unique ability to convey the techniques so that anyone, with a bit of grit and aspiration, can mold and manifest a better life. Dan (Dharmadas) gives Initiations in Babaji’s Kriya Yoga in Boise, Lectures on Babaji’s Kriya Yoga, Kriya Hatha Yoga Classes and workshops in Boise and Western United States.
Jackie Sorensen
Yoga Teacher
Jackie has a profound love and curiosity for unraveling the mysteries of being human. In a fast-paced and comparative society where productivity reigns supreme, she experienced the stifling effects this way of living had on her mind, body and spirit. She recognized the systems and beliefs that she had adopted were no longer serving her highest good. In early motherhood, she felt a deep desire to experience life in a different way, and to find a more loving and supportive path for her children. Yoga was a gentle presence in her life at this time, and she began to recognize how her perceptions, habits and state of being shifted when she practiced. As she became more curious about uncovering the true essence of her being, her path organically began to unfold. With 20+ years dedicated to self-discovery, she has fully embraced her role as a guide and teacher to help others reconnect with their truest selves. She has an eclectic collection of certifications rooted in multiple lineages (Western psychology, Usui reiki, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Yoga) that she infuses in her offerings. Her yoga training consists of over 500 hours of study and is rooted in Self-Awakening Yoga, a lineage that focuses on an inquiry-based and experiential approach that develops the multidimensional self. Her classes provide space to get curious through yoga, conscious breath, meditation, energetic awareness and self-inquiry. Her aspiration is to nurture others to feel at home in their bodies and minds, and find peace and ease as they move through life.
Dave Jones
Yoga Teacher
Dave Jones is a Licensed Professional Counselor, EFT Therapist, Certified Mindfulness Meditation teacher, adjunct professor at Boise State University, cyclist, musician, father, and husband who has a zeal for living life to its fullest potential. As an educator, he has facilitated hundreds of workshops and seminars throughout the United States. In 2015, he suffered a Traumatic Brain Injury that changed the trajectory of his life and led him to intensive firsthand learning of techniques and strategies that have helped him live a fulfilling and meaningful life - even when life handed him a much different and challenging curriculum than he had expected. This journey led him to the world of Yoga Nidra and he went on to do extensive training, practice, and supervision to become a Certified I AM Yoga Nidra™ Teacher/Facilitator and a Certified iRest® Teacher/Facilitator. One of his great joys is coming alongside others as they engage with life in ever-deepening and meaningful ways, and he is greatly looking forward to facilitating Yoga Nidra sessions at Ananda.
Sami Ruggles
Yoga Teacher
Sami believes that yoga is the ultimate form of self-exploration, vulnerability and a wildly selfish—yet forever self-less discipline that will undoubtedly change your life. She believes in the power of storytelling, and yoga as liberation from the narrative we create in our minds. Sami knows that yoga settles itself a little deeper in your soul whether you want it to or not, and her favorite part of teaching is the continual engagement with students who show up eager to learn and continue the cycle. Her classes are curious, safe, and imaginative experiences that help us come back to ourselves and each other. With a passion for mobility and somatic awareness her classes combine vinyasa with functional and primal movements. Sami began her yoga journey at 17 years old at the local YMCA. Like so many before her, she wandered into a yoga studio; a little lost and simply there for the physical benefits. One class and she’s been hooked ever since. With a heartfelt desire to be part of a larger yoga community, she jumped into a teacher training in 2018 and received a 200 HR certification from Yoga Renew and began teaching for Hive Hot Yoga in Twin Falls Idaho. She has been teaching at Hive since 2019. Sami plans to continue her yoga education with Awakening Yoga Academy 300 YTT this Spring. She extends her knowledge off the mat as a holistic nutritionist and Nurse Practitioner with a passion in functional and traditional Chinese medicine. Her classes welcome all bodies and levels of experience, while honoring contemporary culture and lifestyle and being open to play and possibilities on the mat. “The intimacy of the Self is known through experience”